Enable The Lan Traffic Meter - NETGEAR ProSafe SRX5308 Reference Manual

The contents of the WAN2 Traffic Meter, WAN3 Traffic Meter, and WAN4 Traffic Meter
screens are identical to the WAN1 TrafficMeter screen with the exception of WAN
interface number.
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To display a report of the Internet traffic by type for the WAN1 interface:
Click the Traffic by Protocol option arrow in the upper right of the WAN1 Traffic Meter
screen. (Each WAN TrafficMeter screen has a Traffic by Protocol option arrow that enables
you to display the Internet traffic by type for that WAN interface.)
The Traffic by Protocol screen appears in a popup window:
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The incoming and outgoing volume of traffic for each protocol and the total volume of traffic
are displayed. Traffic counters are updated in MBs; the counter starts only when traffic
passed is at least 1 MB. In addition, the popup screen displays the traffic meter's start and
end dates.

Enable the LAN Traffic Meter

If your ISP charges by traffic volume over a period of time and you need to charge the costs
to individual accounts, or if you want to study the traffic volume that is requested or sent over
a LAN IP address over a period of time, you can activate the traffic meter for individual LAN
IP addresses.
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To monitor traffic for LAN IP addresses:
1. Select Network Configuration > LAN Settings. The LAN submenu tabs display, with
the LAN Setup screen in view (see
2. Select the Advanced option arrow in the upper right of the LAN Setup screen. The LAN
Advanced screen displays.
3. Select the LAN Traffic Meter tab. The LAN Traffic Meter screen displays. (The following
figure shows some examples in the LAN Traffic Meter table.)
ProSafe Gigabit Quad WAN SSL VPN Firewall SRX5308
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Monitoring System Access and Performance
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